Lincoln Prize
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The Lincoln Prize, endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, has been awarded annually since 1991 for the best non-fiction historical work of the year on the American Civil War. It is named for U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.[1]
Laureates
The prize has been split equally between two entries on five occasions (1992, 2000, 2008, 2009, and 2012). Recipients of the $50,000 prize have included:
| Year | Author | Winning Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Ken Burns | The Civil War |
| 1992 | William S. McFeely | Frederick Douglass |
| 1992 | Charles Royster | The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans |
| 1993 | Kenneth Stampp | The Peculiar Institution |
| 1994 | Ira Berlin, Barbara Fields, Steven Miller, Joseph Reidy, Leslie Rowland, eds. | Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War |
| 1995 | Phillip Shaw Paludan | The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln |
| 1996 | David Herbert Donald | Lincoln |
| 1997 | Don Fehrenbacher | Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s and The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics |
| 1998 | James M. McPherson | For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War |
| 1999 | Douglas L. Wilson | Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln |
| 2000 | John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger | Runaway Slaves: Rebels in the Plantation |
| 2000 | Allen C. Guelzo | Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President |
| 2001 | Russell F. Weigley | A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 |
| 2002 | David W. Blight | Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| 2003 | George C. Rable | Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! |
| 2004 | Richard Carwardine | Lincoln |
| 2005 | Allen C. Guelzo | Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation |
| 2006 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
| 2007 | Douglas L. Wilson | Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words |
| 2008 | James Oakes | The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Brown Pryor | Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters |
| 2009 | James M. McPherson | Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief |
| 2009 | Craig Symonds | Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War |
| 2010 | Michael Burlingame | Abraham Lincoln: A Life |
| 2011 | Eric Foner | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery |
| 2012 | Elizabeth D. Leonard | Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky |
| 2012 | William C. Harris | Lincoln and the Border States |
See also
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
- American Civil War
References
External links
- http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
- http://www.gettysburg.edu/civilwar/newsdetail.dot?inode=1053567
- http://www.gettysburg.edu/civilwar/prizes_andscholarships/lincoln_prize/
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